Daily Archives: May 9, 2017

Two former champions will meet in the Antigua & Barbuda Basketball Playoff Finals slated to start this week at the JSC Basketball Complex.

The police were yesterday reportedly summoned to investigate an alleged stabbing involving two secondary school girls at the West Bus Station yesterday afternoon.

Chapecoense have won their first title since most of their team were killed in a plane crash.

Speaking publicly for the first time since FIFA announced that its adjudicatory chamber of the independent Ethics Committee had opened formal proceedings against him, General Secretary of the Antigua & Barbuda Football Association, Gordon Derrick, has denied any wrongdoing during his tenure as an employee of the national association.

It is often said that making laws is easy but enforcing them is the difficult part. That is true in general but where there is a will, there is usually a way. Where there is no will (and limited resources), the lack of enforcement has the effect of making laws near useless. It is not enough to say that you have a law, just for the sake of having a law. If there is no serious effort to ensure that people and entities are compliant with the law, then the law is nothing but ink on a piece of paper.

Thirteen-year-old Ronaldo Flowers of Antigua & Barbuda, emerged as the ultimate winner of the Flow Ultimate Football Experience on Sunday, winning a trip to Old Trafford where he will watch, live, Manchester United’s final game of the season against Crystal Palace in the English Premier League (EPL).

George Wehner, an aspiring politician for the opposition United Progressive Party (UPP), has been accused of intimidation and threatening to kill several parliamentarians from the ruling Antigua Barbuda Labour Party, including Prime Minister Gaston Browne.

Opposition United Progressive Party (UPP) caretaker for the St George constituency, George Wehner, pleaded not guilty when he appeared in the All Saints Magistrate’s Court yesterday, jointly charged with Swanston Lewis, with battery of a police officer.

Attorney General Steadroy “Cutie” Benjamin is on the same page with the public, concerning the implementation of a sex offenders’ registry in light of the numerous cases of sexual abuse and incest affecting young people.

A 25-year-old man who was recently convicted for breaking into a woman’s home in Barbuda, is back in police custody on the sister island for suspected larceny, house break-ins and burglary of two shops.